Shadow Home Secretary

In British politics, the Shadow Home Secretary is the person within the shadow cabinet who 'shadows' the Home Secretary; this effectively means scrutinising government policy on home affairs including policing, national security, immigration, the criminal justice system, the prison service, and matters of citizenship. If and when the opposition party is elected to government, the Shadow Home Secretary often becomes the new Home Secretary though this is not always the case. The current Shadow Home Secretary is Conservative MP Dominic Grieve.

[edit] List of Shadow Home Secretaries

Name		Portrait	Entered office	Left office	Political party
	Kenneth Younger		14 December 1955	13 May 1957	Labour
	Patrick Gordon Walker		13 May 1957	12 March 1962	Labour
	George Brown		12 March 1962	15 February 1963	Labour
	Frank Soskice		15 February 1963	15 October 1964	Labour
	Edward Boyle		15 October 1964	28 July 1965	Conservative
	Peter Thorneycroft		28 July 1965	13 April 1966	Conservative
	Quintin McGarel Hogg		13 April 1966	18 June 1970	Conservative
	James Callaghan		18 June 1970	19 October 1971	Labour
	Shirley Williams		19 October 1971	4 May 1973	Labour
	Roy Jenkins		19 April 1972	4 March 1974	Labour
	Keith Joseph		4 March 1974	11 February 1975	Conservative
	Ian Gilmour		11 February 1975	11 April 1976	Conservative
	William Whitelaw		11 April 1976	4 May 1979	Conservative
	Merlyn Rees		4 May 1979	4 November 1980	Labour
	Roy Hattersley		4 November 1980	2 October 1983	Labour
	Gerald Kaufman		2 October 1983	13 June 1987	Labour
	Roy Hattersley		13 June 1987	19 July 1992	Labour
	Tony Blair		19 July 1992	22 July 1994	Labour
	Jack Straw		22 July 1994	2 May 1997	Labour
	Brian Mawhinney		11 June 1997	2 June 1998	Conservative
	Norman Fowler		2 June 1998	15 June 1999	Conservative
	Ann Widdecombe		15 June 1999	18 September 2001	Conservative
	Oliver Letwin		18 September 2001	6 November 2003	Conservative
	David Davis		6 November 2003	12 June 2008	Conservative
	Dominic Grieve		12 June 2008	present	Conservative